Amateur-Film and Home-Video, Tips and Information from C'est leToon

A discussion panel at the Davos World Economic Forum has become a sensation after a Dutch historian took billionaires to task for not payi...

The Odessa steps The best-known sequence of the film is set on the Odessa steps, connecting the waterfront with the central city. The citi...

  In this case, the inspiration is M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch artist who explored a wide range of mathematical ideas with his wood...

Screens specifically designed for use in video walls usually have narrow bezels in order to minimize the gap between active display areas,...

Home slide shows were a relatively common phenomenon in middle-class American homes during the 1950s and 1960s. If there was an enthusias...

United Nations In February 2018, OCHA (the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations) issued a report on...

Cinema newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented. Halfweg contains the last steam pumping station in the Netherla...

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a sp...

Stan & Ollie is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jon S. Baird from a screenplay by Jeff Pope. Based on the lives of ...

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. The concept is often used interchangeably with that of film re...

  A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or chor...

Daan Roosegaarde has called on designers to shift focus away from designing luxury items and instead to tackle the problems facing the wor...

Turkish Delight starts with a look at the failure of sculptor Eric to engage in lasting and meaningful relations with women. His brief enc...

Images from antonwithagen its me/ mine ! Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying picture is physi...

T he film noir genre generally refers to mystery/crime dramas produced from the early-1940s to the late 1950s. Movies of this genre were ...

On the basis of special objects and historical archive material, Home Movie Day zooms in on a number of drastic changes in amateur films t...

Montage is the technique by which separate pieces of film are selected, edited, and then pieced together to make a new section of film. A ...

Roel Reine was born in The Netherlands, and with his first theatrical feature 'The Delivery' he won The Golden Calf for Best Direc...

Proponents say that the idea behind the various graphics that incorporate a thin blue line is that law enforcement is a Thin Blue Line tha...

Camera movements can also be motion captured so that a virtual camera in the scene will pan, tilt, or dolly around the stage driven by a c...

  The anti-social Flodder family are living in a upscale suburban neighboorhood. They don't adjust to their environment, and keep o...

the black and white pictures are find footage of mine used in Whaling on this blog. “Our oceans form the earth’s largest life support sy...

Although Dutch-born silent screen femme fatale Jetta Goudal (pronounced Zhett-eh Goo-doll) may be pretty much forgotten today, she was,...

Amsterdam film by antonwithagen. Costi Ioniță known mononymously as Costi (born 14 January 1978), is a Romanian singer, songwriter and r...

A flash mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time,...

In filmmaking, found footage is the use of footage as a found object, appropriated for use in collage films, documentary films, mockumenta...

Used in the background is an Amsterdam Zoo footage of the aquarium. Availabel on this Blog.

            Operation Market Garden by Anton Withagen from Resartus  Covered. Music dammaged! War film is a film genre concerned with w...

A hashtag is a type of metadata tag used on social networks such as Twitter and other microblogging services, allowing users to apply dyna...

Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources. Exploration occurs in all non-sessile anim...

European Film Gateway provides quick and easy access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film a...

Originally this video was made by my daughter when she was still a student. Daddy did the editing and music. I was coverd by others.

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original arti...

Although not widely known in the United States, T-Series, an Indian music label and film production company, has the most-watched YouTube ...

In the performing arts industry such as theatre, film, or television, a casting (or casting call) is a pre-production process for selectin...

Several sub-categories of sport films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in live action, are so...

Saint Martin of Tours has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in Western tradition. A native of Pannonia...

Blip.tv until 2013 was an open video network that hoststed and distributed web-based TV shows and videoblogs created by independent prod...

http://www.ted.com Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to,...

A courtroom sketch is an artistic depiction of the proceedings in a court of law. In many jurisdictions, cameras are not allowed in courtr...

A journalistic interview takes the form of a conversation between two or more people: interviewer(s) ask questions to elicit facts or ...

Once a film concludes principal photography, it is said to have wrapped, and a wrap party may be organized to celebrate. During post-produ...

In the past similar systems have been made by projecting a defocused image directly in front of the user's eye on a small "screen...

The aesthetics of photography is a matter that continues to be discussed regularly, especially in artistic circles. Many artists argued ...

I n his essay Film-arte, film-antiartístico, artist Salvador Dalí declared the works of Keaton to be prime examples of "anti-artistic...

Amateur films were usually shot on 16 mm film or on 8 mm film (either Double-8 or Super-8) until the advent of cheap video cameras or dig...

English animator Steve Cutts has a knack for satirizing the excesses of modern society. Just watch his 2012 short animation "Man,...

Paper and cardboard: are collected and called :old paper The Dutch are good at separating old paper and cardboard: we deliver three quar...

Musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. ...